THEM DODGES DID IT AGAIN

Well it was a decent race at the monster mile with Kyle and Dennie showing JimmIE not everyone drives a Chevy. He never saw the front till later in the race but then it became a fuel Mileage game then. Some had problems all race like Tony,he just wasnt a front player,others worked and finally got some kinks out to start towards the front.

But in the end it was a Bad Boy BRAD in the end. Mileage wasnt a problem for him,. Jimmie was instructed not to run over 80% throttle (thats not racing) and Kyle had to hit the pits for splash of gas.

Bobby Allison was there and compared two of todays drivers to David Pearson and himself I guess,it sounded that wat when he said Kyle was able to drive anything to the front.

But he compared David Pearson to Jimmie Johnson saying he was quiet and calculating in his moves,sounds kinda right dont you think??

All in all next week will get the kinks out of everyone when they drop off into that first turn at Talladega ..

updated by @johnny-mallonee: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM

I enjoyed Bobby's interview, especially when he said he and Richard would be on pit road after the race comparing the tire rub marks they'd put on each other's cars while David was standing in Victory Lane with the pretty gals!

Taking nothing away from Brad & Co., I think the Gibbs execs Joe Bob and Joe Dan (wait, that was HB Bailey's son) need to go find Gary Nelson and pay him to show how he used to snake all that extra fuel tubing through the roll cages at DiGard for Ricky Rudd.

The Blue Duece is on top of its game and is a formidable competitor. Kinda like an Ian Fleming novel about ole 007 - Never Say Die... Never Say Never Again.... when they said Brad couldn't win, he became Dr. NO!

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I cancelled my cable and can't find illegal streams on the web anymore, so I'm stick with MRN for half the season. Considering the state of TV race calling today, I may have an advantage.I wanted more drivers with personality, but Brad's big mouth annoys me. I can't forgive him for tossing Allmendinger to the sharks. Teammates are supposed to act like their concerned about each other. Then he inserted himself into the driver selection process to make sure that he wouldn't be upstaged by the new driver. I think it's fair to say that he's the modern Bobby Allison. He's definitely got talent but he can be darn annoying. At the very least he's the new DW; self-absorbed and not afraid to show it.Folks say that Penske will regret his switch to Ford because they just aren't performing. I would feel that way too, except the Dodges haven't been performing well before this year. That's one reason why nobody else was using them. Penske is a wizard in Indycars but I've never felt that he knew how to run a NASCAR team. I'm not expecting him to improve Ford's situation.As I've said on other sites, I feel Kyle is the best driver in cup today. But if I were Joe Gibbs, I'd toss him out the door next year when his contract is up. He doesn't have the stamina, ambition and patience to make a decent run at the championship. If his car is just slightly off, he's likely to coast for the rest of the day instead of hunching down and driving the heck out of it. I see that Kyle is stalling Gibbs on a contract extension, it may be that he wants out. With Hamlin in the Chase and Kenseth coming next year, he could look like the new Joey Logano very quickly. Childress seems to be grooming Kurt Busch for a ride in 2014. He should be sidling up to Kyle instead. But Childress has had enough run-ins with the Busch brothers that I can't see him actually hiring either.I hate Talladega. With restrictor plates and pack racing, the results are more or less random. They have a great track museum though.

hey andy - tell you what happened to us one time - the sound went out on our tv set so we turned on the radio and watched the race - it was actually pretty good - i agree the announcing gets to be to phony sometimes .